The Pearl [antikvár]

CHAPTER I Kino awoke at dawn. The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky^ to the east. The cocks had been crowing for some time, and "the early pigs were already begiiming their endless turning of twigs and bits of wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked. Outside the brush house,^ little birds chattered and fluttered their wings. Kino's eyes opened, and he looked first at the lightening square which was the door and then he looked at the hanging box where Coyotito slept. And last he turned his head to Juana, his wife, who lay beside him on the mat. Juana's eyes were open too. Kino could never remember seeing them closed when he awoke. Her dark eyes made little reflected stars.^ She was looking at him as she was always looking at him when he awoke. Kino heard the little splash of morning, waves on the beach. It v/as very good—Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music. Perhaps he alone did this and perhaps all of his people did it. His people had once been great makers of songs^ so that everything they saw or thought or did or heard became a song. In Kino's head there was a song now, clear and soft, and if he had been able to speak it, he would have called it the Song of the Family.® ^ the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky — ÄeHb npocBe^HBaji ße.-iHSHOH y caMoro ropHSOHTa (a pale wash of light — c^iaöbiH CBei) ^ the brush house — 3d. TpocTHHKOBaa xniKHHa ® made little reflected stars — noöjiecKHBaJin MaJieHbKHMH 3Be3-ilOIKaMH * his people had once been great makers of songs — b aabhhe Bpe-Mena ero Hapo/i cjiaBHJicH yMenneM c.naraTb necHH ® if he had been able to speak it, he would have called it the Song of the Family — ecjiH 6u oh Mor paccKaaaxfa o Heß (necne), oh HasBaji 6bi ee OecHbio CeMbH (coc.naraTejibHoe HaKJioneHHe)